Therapeutic treatment and dressing-room apparatus



1927' J. J. REKAR THERAPEUTIC TREATMENT AND DRBSSING ROOM APPARATUS Filed Oct. 19, 19 5 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 T L IUD INVENTOR; I J12 iie/far,

WW 'TTQRNEYK' J. J. REKAR Feb. 8, 1927.

THERAPEUTIC TREATMENT AND DRESSING ROOM APPARATUS Filed Oct. 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTO c' JP Z 7' TORNEY Patented Feb. 8, 1927.

ITED ATT JAY J. BEKAB, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOB, TO DE LUKE LAMP MFG. 00., 015 LOS ANGELES, A-LHOBNIA, A CORPORATION 0F CALIFORNIA.

THERAPEUTIC TREATMENT AND DRESSING-ROOM APPARATUS.

Application filed October 19, 1925. Serial No. 63,323.

This invention relates to surgical apparatus and especially to therapeutic tables and lamp equipment therefor.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a combined treatment table, lamp support and private dressing chamber. Another object is to provide an extension dressing chamber. Another object is to provide for the adjustment of a treatment lamp or lamps to any desired position above and along the prostrate patient and provide for change of elevation and of angle of the lamp at any of its horizontal adjustments Without change of its primary supporting means.

Frequently a doctors operating room or rooms may be crowded with equipment of various kinds or there may be a lack of space for treatment of therapeutic cases and it is a general object of the instant invention to provide means for facilitating the treatment of these cases by providing an apparatus which will eliminate the use of a whole room for a sin le patient to secure privacy, and to provi e apparatus which will allow treatment of several patients in a single room and still secure privacy in undressing and during treatment and redressing.

By this apparatus not only are the time and steps of the operatives conserved by avoiding passing from room to room, but a material rental cost is cut ofi, and at the same time undesired scattering of the effective light rays from the lamp apparatus is wholly overcome.

An object is to provide a most convenient, compact, sanitary, practical and inexpensive treatment and protective unit, and one that is portable, is capable of being compactly packed when knocked down, and is thus made shipable at reasonable cost.

Other objects and advantages be made perceivable in the following specificae tion of an embodiment of the invention illustrated in the accompanying drawings; it being understood that modification, variation and adaptation may be resorted to within the spirit and scope thereof.

Figure 1 is a perspective of the complete, protective, treatment unit. Figure 2 is a detail of an end post and its top fitting. Figure 3 is a detail of a post and its stepping socket. Figure 4 is a plan of a portion of the lamp rail and the curtain frame. Figure 5 is a t l th 99W 9? a l mp and its snatch-hook. Figure 6 is a vertical section ofthe traveller. Figure 7 is an end elevation thereof, and Figure 8 is a horizontal cross-section.

The unit comprises a substantial bedding or mattress support in the form of a bench 2 havin stout legs 3 all suitably framed as at 4. 11 each end of this support is a step-socket 5, secured by screws or bolts 6. Upstanding in each socket is asubstantial standard or post 7 Whose lower end is secured by a set-screw 8.

On the top of each post is a fitting shown, in the present instance, as having a plug 10 driven into the top of the post. Each fitting has a cross-box 11 receiving its end of a track-rail 12. Below and at rightangle to the box 11 the fitting is provided with a bore to receive end elements of a curtain frame.

The curtain frame here includes opposed U-shaped sections 14-45. These sections are adapted for relative, lateral adjustment, and for this purpose the end-arms 14 -45 are mutually telescopic.

Travellers 18 having rollers 17 are hung on the rail 12 and these have weightless, counter-poise means from which extend flexible suspension tapes or hangers 20. On the lower ends of the hangers are friction gripping or biting snatch-hooks 21 engaging bows 22 of therapeutic lamps 23.

Electric extension cords 25 suspend from the rail or other top portion to the lamps.

A feature of the grip 21 is that it will bind on any portion of the bow and hold the lamp tipped at various angles over the reclining figure of the patient.

The travellers are each provided with a spring counter-balance device 19.

On the frame 1 1e.-15 is hung a wall of flexible material, as duck, which can be drawn open or closed at the, front of the bench or bed, which latter is of a Width to jIStICOIHfOIt-Qbly support the body of a large a u t.

When one or more units are in an operting room the top frame maybe initially spread to such a width that when the cur tain is drawn closed ample standing space .105

closure fully dressed, to undress and 'receive treatment and then pass from the enclosure fully dressed, thus avoiding unnecessary embarrassment and preventing undesired exposure to drafts as incurred when passing from hall to room or'from room to room, while partially disrohed.

A preferred form of traveller 18 is shown as comprising a long spiral spring 19 whose inner end is attached to a spindle fixed in side walls of the traveller casing 18. Running loose on the spindle is a drum 26 to which the outer end of the spring 19 is attached. From the drum extends the cord or tape 20 which passes down through the bottom of the casing and has a rubber stop and bumper 27 to prevent the tape from being pulled entirely in by the spring 19 when the lamp 23 is removed. The casing has upwardly extending ears 28 at the front and back for shafts of the interposed rollers 17. The spring functions to hold the lamp suspended at any height and so counterbalances it that the lamp can be raised or lowered with but small effort by the operative. The traveller can be easily and quickly shifted along the track rail 12. This strucemmas ture gives universal adjustment of the lamp in the vertical plane of the rail;

What is claimed-is:

1. A therapeutic treatment unit comprising a support, therapeutic lamps, uprights on the support, and means extending overhead from the uprights and suspending the lamps; said overhead means including a frame structure having a track lengthwise and horizontal between the uprights.

2. Therapeutic apparatus including a horizontal bar, and reel means shiftable along the bar and operative to support a treatment lamp counterbalanced at various elevations, said means including a housing paving at its top rollers operating along the 3. In a therapeutic apparatus, a set of standards, fittings on the tops of the standards, an elongated overhead frame work connecting the standards and including a central rail, and lamp suspending travellers slidable along the railto dispose the lamps in different positions between the ends of the frame.

JAY J. REKAR. 

